period: The Mummy & The Mummy Returns

The Mummy & The Mummy Returns

With the help of an American adventurer, Evelyn Carnahan (Rachel Weisz), an English librarian, starts an archaeological dig at the ancient city of Hamunaptra unaware that another group is interested in the same site. But things get really complicated when a curse is unleashed awakening a Mummy.

Anck Su Namun (Patricia Velazquez) is the exotically decorated mistress
of the Pharaoh Seti and no one but the Pharaoh is allowed to touch her. But behind his back she and the High Priest, Imhotep, are in love – and then the suspicious Pharaoh returns unexpectedly and notices that her makeup is smeared.

Anck Su Namun kills herself and Imhotep is mummified alive for trying to resurrect her. His awakened mummy is determined both to restore his own body and to bring Anck Su Namun back to life.

In The Mummy Returns Patricia Velazquez also appears as Meela Nais, the modern reincarnation of Anck Su Namun, wearing a dress that recalls Anck Su Namun’s bodypainting. While Evelyn realises she is the reincarnation of Nefertiri daughter of Seti.

This was an effects-loaded movie (a veritable army of makeup and makeup effects artists worked on it) but I believe that Sarah Berry was the chief bodypainter for Patricia Velaquez and was responsible for Anck Su Namun’s paint-job assisted by Carol Tucker.